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Waiting and praying for the day a big name player will choose our club over another great club.
Will hate to be in Zaha's shoes at the moment. If the stories coming out are true then I cant blame him. Must be really annoying and frustrating.

I would still play Rafa and Tony V down the right side and Adnan on the left, Tonys pace will murder Cole. Chelseas strikers are pathetic should be food and drink for Vida, its the movement from Oscar/Hazard that worry me.

I disagree, I find its a lot of older fans that have been put off by the prices remembering the good old days of cheap prices. I am 28 myself and I find a lot of teenage fans are a problem especially at away games, blockingn isles, bringing flaresm being awkward for stewards etc which then effects our allocation for our next away at that ground.

Ando had all then potential in the world, shame injuries and his weight injuries stoped his progress, I hope he has a fresh start in Italy, Good luck Ando

It will be tough signing Gundogan, especially with Real Madrid interested (They usually get who they want) but I am hoping with his mate Kagawa here that he choses OT although I imaginen it wont be until the summer, I really hope Baines signs that contract at Everton.

Is it possible to get something out of the game on Sunday? OF COURSE but it's going to be extremely difficult and we will have to play the best football we have played since Real Madrid. With the personnel available for that game, the chances of that happening are slim to NONE however when there is life, there is hope and i'll be hoping that by some miracle or something we can leave there with a result. Five things are absolutely critical for us on Sunday.

1. FLETCHER.MUST.START. He's a slightly more mobile version of Carrick and is just as good on the ball. If Tom Cleverley starts the game then we will lose it.
2. (if fit) JONES. MUST. START in defense alongside Vidic. Smalling is seriously error-prone and we can't risk it on sunday.
3. Januzaj has to be willing to drop back and help out Evra. Evra will need all the help he can get on Sunday cuz it's going to be a barrage. Januzaj has to help him out and Carrick too must share some of the burden of stopping crosses coming in.
4. Welbeck's hold up play must be spot on. We won't be getting the ball much on Sunday which means that the times we have the ball we HAVE to make the best possible use of it. No pointless dribbling, pass at the right time, release at the right time, make the right runs.
5. Kagawa must play in the hole behind Welbeck. It's the only place he's of any use in the team and he'll give us clam going forward.

Yeh ..Kags must play in the hole. Not scared of Chelsea @all ...just dont see us winning. Probably stalemate, or they nick a goal.
Fletch back to form is really huge for us. Wont be too surprised if we win though.
Herrera is the CM i deem a perfect fit for us and the EPL ..has the spanish creativity and the basque toughness, though Gundogan is my favorite CM barr Iniesta.

I don't rate this Chelsea team they have more weaknesses than strengths. Their best player will be on the bench too.

Unfortunately.

Their manager is Jose Mourinho and ours is David Moyes. That is the only difference between the two teams. At the start of the season we would have appointed each others managers instead we would splitting Arsenal and Citeh while they were plunging the Europe League beauty spots.

At the Bridge play a compact midfield three Clev, Fletch and Carrick. The goal machine Welbeck up top with Valencia right and wonderboy left. I'd look to draw Chelsea out to expose the pace of John Terry. I was tempted to play Kagawa to keep the ball but he's completely shit, we wont struggle to get the ball and Valencia's pace against Cole should bring joy.

llkay Gundogan is the best central midfielder in the world. I would rate Arturo Vidal and Yaya Toure just below him. If we push the boat out we could possibly sign two of them. LOL.

I would rather sign nobody than pay 30m+ for Herrera.

This month we should make Yohan Cabaye and Alex Song our targets. They are both realistic targets and could both be scooped for 30m-35m. They both have Premier League experience so could hit the ground running which is vital. Then in the summer we can look to tempt a big name or two.

Michael Carrick - Whether you rate him or not he's over 30 and not getting younger.
Tom Cleverley - Useful for now as a squad player.
Darren Fletcher - Nice revival but the central midfield deck needs to be cleared.
Anderson - Further clearing the deck.

If I were United manager obviously two of those would leave in the summer no matter what happened. Michael Carrick would follow soon after if we got a bid or strengthened sufficiently Forming a conga line behind would be Alexander Buttner, Patrice Evra, Rio Ferdinand, Marouane Fellaini, Ryan Giggs, Bebe, Ashley Young, Federico Macheda, Javier Hernandez and Ángelo Henríquez for varying reasons. I'd take a serious look at the futures of Nemanja Vidic (contract and injuries) and (being shite) Shinji Kagawa.

Nemanja Vidic has been my favourite United player for so long. That hurt to say.

I'd bring back Nick Powell (although he isn't a central midfielder) and further push Jesse Lingard.

Sorry for this abusively long post thumbs up for people who read it all.